Thanks for the reply. It surely looks like Flacourtia, which is not well known to me. I will check it further, and we can wait for more inputs.
Pani-amla is again one of those wonderful fruits, becoming unknown and unavailable to city people. A.Sinha On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 3:01:56 PM UTC+5:30, Prasad Dash wrote: > > Please check Flacourtia jangomas. Nice capture. > > Regards > > Prasad > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM, greenearth <sinha...@gmail.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hello Friends >> >> Another spinous plant , growing in the wild, outskirts of bangalore: >> Shrubs 4 to 6 ft height, fruiting and flowering in November. >> The 1st and 2nd images are of two different plants , very similar , >> bearing separately male and female flowers >> but there might have been one male plant also having fruit. >> The fruit turns black on ripening; it has 3 or 4 seeds. >> >> Thanks in advance for any help in identification. >> >> A.Sinha >> >> >> >> >> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v4Baiw2Pj0g/ULXVgZpxBgI/AAAAAAAAAOM/IaRWOheAnUs/s1600/GE-Sp-FemFlr%2BFrt.jpg> >> >> >> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-qqkmXj8SUSM/ULXV5bbmlXI/AAAAAAAAAOU/SUe-TKV6zgk/s1600/GE-Sp-MaleFlr.jpg> >> >> >> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-nW2B2EKVJBE/ULXXNO1o_RI/AAAAAAAAAOk/64oU67aEPK0/s1600/GE-Sp-Sps.jpg> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Dr. Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Odisha, India > email: prasad....@gmail.com <javascript:> > ph. 09437444241 > --